kirkstaller wrote:Blimey.
Who has been jailed for saying they would commit a crime if something impossible happened? And by that, I mean why would God ask me to kill someone? God would not do that, no way, he loves us all. So basically, what I said was the equivalent of saying I'd rape someone if the sun turned luminous pink tomorrow morning.
Would that be worthy of prison?
Keep them coming
You're missing the point by some margin.
Any number of psychopaths have claimed that God spoke to them and ordered them to kill people. They firmly believed this - just as firmly as you believe in the divine and in the fact that Christ personally visited you. To a rational mind there is no distinction between these claims. As far as I'm concerned you are at least irrational and quite possibly delusional.
The question isn't whether God would ask you to kill someone - although he's hardly been reluctant to do that in the past according to the Bible - it's whether there is a risk that you would
believe that he had and act on that belief. Something you have just confirmed that you would.
That, to anyone rational, is a sign of possible mental illness with a potential for harm to innocent people. Hence my concern.
